# Guess the band, Guess the age of the Doper. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 5, 2008, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-guess-the-age-of-the-doper/444037 "2008-04-05T03:36:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-guess-the-age-of-the-doper/444037/41 "2008-04-06T05:13:49Z")
[QUOTE=Anastasaeon] Argh! My failing memory wants to place these guys as members of James Brown’s band… ? Maybe? My contributions: 1. Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James, Dave Rowntree 2. Tom Shear 3. Sascha Konietzko, Steve White, Andy Selway, Lucia Cifarelli, Jules Hodgson [also Raymond Watts, Tim Skold, En Esch, Günter Schulz, Bill Rieflin, etc, etc, etc] [/QUOTE] 4. is Blur 5. is Assemblage 23 I’m gonna guess you’re 29. Mine (pretty easy): 1. Bob Mould, Greg Norton, Grant Hart 2. Peter Hook, Gillian Gilbert, Bernard Sumner 3. Paul Heaton, Norman Cook, Dave Hemingway ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-guess-the-age-of-the-doper/444037/42 "2008-04-06T05:16:28Z")
[QUOTE=woodstockbirdybird] 1. is Blur 2. is Assemblage 23 I’m gonna guess you’re 29. [/QUOTE] 1 & 2 - correct Age - exactly right. +7 points for you, right? ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-guess-the-age-of-the-doper/444037/43 "2008-04-06T05:18:55Z")
[QUOTE=Anastasaeon] 1 & 2 - correct Age - exactly right. +7 points for you, right? [/QUOTE] Damn, you know you’re a music geek when you can guess somebody’s age by 3 bands they’ve listed. I have no clue on your #3, though, so maybe I’m not as geeky as I thought. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-guess-the-age-of-the-doper/444037/44 "2008-04-06T05:39:59Z")
[QUOTE=DfrntBreign] Your #1 is the Flecktones. Don’t know the others (I recognise the names in 2 but don’t know the band.) [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Anastasaeon] Argh! My failing memory wants to place these guys as members of James Brown’s band… ? Maybe? [/QUOTE] Both right. [QUOTE=Crawlspace] 3) Trey Anastasio, Les Claypool, Stewart Copeland [/QUOTE] Oysterhead [QUOTE=woodstockbirdybird] 1. Bob Mould, Greg Norton, Grant Hart [/QUOTE] Husker Du ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-guess-the-age-of-the-doper/444037/45 "2008-04-06T05:56:16Z")
1. Steve Marker Duke Erikson Shirley Manson Butch Vig 1. Jim Shapiro Nina Gordon Steve Lack Louise Post 1. Dean Dinning Glen Phillips Randy Guss Todd Nichols ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-guess-the-age-of-the-doper/444037/46 "2008-04-06T06:01:37Z")
[QUOTE=elfkin477] 1. Steve Marker Duke Erikson Shirley Manson Butch Vig 1. Jim Shapiro Nina Gordon Steve Lack Louise Post [/QUOTE] 1. Garbage 2. Veruca Salt 3. ? Age - same as me, perhaps… 29-ish? ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-guess-the-age-of-the-doper/444037/47 "2008-04-06T06:10:59Z")
**elfkin’s** #3 is Toad the Wet Sprocket. Dave Mason Chris Wood Jim Capaldi Tony Iommi Geezer Butler Bill Ward Dennis Danell Chuck Biscuits Mike Ness ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-guess-the-age-of-the-doper/444037/48 "2008-04-06T06:27:39Z")
[QUOTE=Enginerd] **elfkin’s** #3 is Toad the Wet Sprocket. Dave Mason Chris Wood Jim Capaldi Tony Iommi Geezer Butler Bill Ward Dennis Danell Chuck Biscuits Mike Ness [/QUOTE] 1. Traffic 2. Black Sabbath 3. ??? No idea Here are mine: Billy Zoom DJ Bonebrake John Doe Exene Cervenka Neil Finn Nick Seymour Paul Hester Jimmy Barnes Don Walker Ian Moss Steve Prestwich Phil Small ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-guess-the-age-of-the-doper/444037/49 "2008-04-06T06:35:19Z")
[QUOTE=mhendo] Billy Zoom DJ Bonebrake John Doe Exene Cervenka Phil Small [/QUOTE] That would be X. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-guess-the-age-of-the-doper/444037/50 "2008-04-06T06:43:54Z")
[QUOTE=mhendo] Neil Finn Nick Seymour Paul Hester [/QUOTE] Crowded House ---
**Author:** ![Crawlspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Crawlspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crawlspace)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-guess-the-age-of-the-doper/444037/51 "2008-04-06T07:11:48Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Old And In The Way [/QUOTE] That is correct, sir. [QUOTE=Enginerd] Oysterhead [/QUOTE] Yup. #2 and age still unaccounted for. ---
**Author:** ![BACI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@BACI](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BACI)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-guess-the-age-of-the-doper/444037/52 "2008-04-06T07:34:57Z")
[QUOTE=mhendo] Neil Finn Nick Seymour Paul Hester Jimmy Barnes Don Walker Ian Moss Steve Prestwich Phil Small [/QUOTE] Crowdies followed by The Chisels (Cold Chisel). Which puts you at 43. ---
**Author:** ![HongKongFooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-guess-the-age-of-the-doper/444037/53 "2008-04-06T12:56:39Z")
[QUOTE=Enginerd] **elfkin’s** #3 is Toad the Wet Sprocket. Dennis Danell Chuck Biscuits Mike Ness [/QUOTE] Social Distortion ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-guess-the-age-of-the-doper/444037/54 "2008-04-06T22:47:12Z")
One point for **silenus** , and one point for **Enginerd** for bands. **Enginerd** did not come close to my age. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-guess-the-age-of-the-doper/444037.md?page=2)